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Excerpt from Albion and Albanius: An Opera, Perform'd at the Queens Theatre in Dorset-Garden
Singers and Dancers who are introduc'd in this prefent Opera. It cannot properly be call'd a Play, becaufe the Action of his fop pos'd to be conduétedfometimes by fupernaturai Means, or Ma gick; nor an Opera, becaufe the Story of it is not fung. But more of this at its.properltime.: But fome intervening Accidents having hitherto defer'r'd the performance of the main. Defign, Ipropos'd to the Adiors, ' to turn the intended Prologue into an Entertainment by it (elf, asyou now fee it, by adding two Adis more to w hatl had already'written. The Suhje? of it is wholly-allegorical; and the Allegory sit'fell (0 very obvious, that it will no fooner be read than uhderllood. 'tis divided according to the plain and natural Method of every Adtion, intc'j Three Parts. For even ari/earle himfelf is contented to fay'fimply, That in all Aétions there is a Beginning, 'a Middle, and an End after which Model, ail the Sisa ai/b Plays fife built.
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